Overview
- India’s Ministry of External Affairs announced on Tuesday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will make an official visit to France and Slovakia from June 13–19 to attend G7 outreach sessions and hold bilateral talks.
- Modi will meet French President Emmanuel Macron in Nice on June 14 and jointly inaugurate the ‘Bharat Innovates’ event to spotlight startups and tech collaboration.
- He will pay a state visit to Slovakia from June 14–16, the first visit by an Indian prime minister to Bratislava since 1993, to pursue trade, investment and manufacturing ties.
- Modi will attend G7 outreach sessions in Evian on June 16–17 and India and the United States are exploring a short Modi–Trump meeting on the sidelines, but no bilateral has been finalised.
- The trip frames broader diplomacy: it accompanies ongoing India‑US trade negotiations that followed last year’s tariffs, spotlights India’s tech diplomacy at VivaTech in Paris on June 18, and could influence the timetable and substance of a bilateral trade pact.